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Antonio\u00a0“Toni”\u00a0Negri\u00a0is an Italian\u00a0Marxist\u00a0sociologist\u00a0and\u00a0political philosopher, best known for his co-authorship of\u00a0Empire<\/i>, and secondarily for his work on\u00a0Spinoza.<\/p>\nAntonio\u00a0“Toni”\u00a0Negri\u00a0is an Italian\u00a0Marxist\u00a0sociologist\u00a0and\u00a0political philosopher, best known for his co-authorship of\u00a0Empire<\/i>, and secondarily for his work on\u00a0Spinoza.<\/p>\n
Born in\u00a0Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in his hometown university. Negri founded the\u00a0Potere Operaio\u00a0<\/i>(Worker Power) group in 1969 and was a leading member of\u00a0Autonomia Operaia<\/i>. As one of the most popular theorists of\u00a0Autonomism, he has published hugely influential books urging “revolutionary consciousness.”<\/p>\n
He was accused in the late 1970s of various charges including being the mastermind of the left-wing\u00a0urban guerrillaorganization\u00a0Red Brigades\u00a0(Brigate Rosse<\/i>\u00a0or BR), involved in the May 1978 kidnapping of\u00a0Aldo Moro, two-time Prime Minister of Italy, and leader of the\u00a0Christian-Democrat Party, among others. He was wrongly suspected to have made a threatening phone call on behalf of the BR,but the court was unable to conclusively prove his ties.\u00a0The question of Negri’s complicity with left-wing extremism is a controversial subject.\u00a0He was indicted on a number of charges, including “association and insurrection against the state” (a charge which was later dropped), and sentenced for involvement in two murders.<\/p>\n
Negri fled to France where, protected by the\u00a0Mitterrand doctrine, he taught at the\u00a0Paris VIII (Vincennes)\u00a0and the\u00a0Coll\u00e8ge international de philosophie, along with\u00a0Jacques Derrida,\u00a0Michel Foucault\u00a0and\u00a0Gilles Deleuze. In 1997, after a plea-bargain that reduced his prison time from 30 to 13 years,\u00a0he returned to Italy to serve the end of his sentence. Many of his most influential books were published while he was behind bars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Antonio\u00a0“Toni”\u00a0Negri\u00a0is an Italian\u00a0Marxist\u00a0sociologist\u00a0and\u00a0political philosopher, best known for his co-authorship of\u00a0Empire, and secondarily for his work on\u00a0Spinoza. Born in\u00a0Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in his hometown university. Negri founded the\u00a0Potere Operaio\u00a0(Worker Power) group in 1969 and was a leading… Continue Reading